“I don’t think that I would want to be a cheerleader, telling those people that don’t want to pay their taxes: ‘Hey, you know what? The government’s most recent estimate, which dates from 2010, is that Americans fail to pay more than $400 billion in taxes each year. That is enough money to reduce the annual federal deficit almost by half. And there is every reason to think that the underpayment of taxes has increased since 2010, as enforcement has declined. The government employs fewer people to chase deadbeats than at any time since the 1950s.

Source: New York Times March 28, 2019 23:03 UTC